Shapeshifters
On Wounds, Wonders and Transformation
ed. by Ashley Maum ; intr. by Josien Pieterse and Emily Shin-Jie Lee ; essay by Rolando Vázquez

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Author(s)

Rolando Vázquez, Josien Pieterse, Emily Shin-Jie Lee

Editor(s)

Ashley Maum

Publication, year

Amsterdam : Framer Framed, 2025

Scope

[36] Pages, illustrated, 21 cm.

Carrier

Booklet

ISBN

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Small guide accompanying the similar titled group exhibition at Framer Framed, Amsterdam (5 Oct – 11 Jan 2026). It showed works by artists who examine how colonialism has shaped the ways museums, archives and other institutions of knowledge are perceived and understood. The exhibition title draws from science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler, for whom ‘shapeshifting’ refers not only to the ability to transform at will but to a survival strategy, an imaginative technology and a means of resisting domination.

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Person as subject

Mirelle van Tulder, Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic, Anna Safiatou Touré, Georges Senga, Kader Attia, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Leah Zhang, Pei-Hsuan Wang, Sammy Baloji & Cécile Fromont, al-yené, Cécile Fromont, Sammy Baloji, Antonio Jose Guzman, Iva Jankovic

Keywords

kolonisatie / colonisation , dekolonisatie / decolonisation

Location

Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie / Expanded Space ; Global Art ; Decolonize Culture

Contains

biographies , notes